Monthly Archives: December 2015

Fairytale of New York belted out by Shane McGowan and Kristy MacColl, at least 5 times, on a loop preferably. It’s a must for any Christmas Eve, evoking the good, the romantic and the plain old annoyance that the stress of Christmas brings sometimes. It has it all. My husband …

Today it is -4C where we are, up on the hills outside of Oslo. We are about 150m above sea level so it always tends to be a bit colder here than in the city centre near the fjord. Yesterday it was bitter at -9C but snow fell and the temperature …

Our first year here, we had turkey for our Christmas day feast in line with the tradition that we were familiar with. The turkey bird is more of an Irish/British tradition. The Germans tend to go for goose but my husband had never been too bothered either way. He doesn’t mind what …

Well, youngsters are the same everywhere, I guess that is reassuring. That was my thought process at the time. In our first 6 months here, I spent my time at home with the kids. This was to do the obvious, get used to the environment, ease them in gently as …

Roald Dahl was born in Wales to Norwegian parents, hence the Norwegian name. I always saw him as British, which he was. But they were the days that I wouldn’t recognise a Norwegian name if it banged me on the head. I am no expert now but I am a …